David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • A Time of Reckoning

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    There will come a time when order will be turned upside down because people are choosing to ignore the wisdom of the Lord and follow the counsel of their own making.

  • Let us go up…to the house of the God of Jacob

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    I look forward to the day that men seek out the Lord to learn His ways instead of leaning on their own wisdom.

  • My soul delighteth

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    And also my soul delighteth in the covenants of the Lord which he hath made to our fathers; yea, my soul delighteth in his grace, and in his justice, and power, and mercy in the great and eternal plan of deliverance from death. 2 Nephi 11:5 That is a great list of things to be…

  • A Choice Land

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    Today I am seeing the promises of the Lord to the Nephites and to the gentiles in the promised land in a new light. We who are of the lineage of Joseph are numbered among the seed of Lehi with regard to being covered by the promises for those in this land. This is the…

  • Teaching how to decide

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    The Sermon on the Mount gives guidelines but the intent isn’t to to give office and complete rules, it is to provide guidelines against which people can learn to make righteous choices and take righteous and generous action.

  • Wo unto the rich

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    When we hear the messages of “blessed are the poor” and “wo unto the rich” it is easy to simplistically conclude that money is bad for the soul but Jacob makes it clear here that being right is no obstacle IF the rich will consider wealth as having no priority before God. If they will…

  • The merciful plan

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    I don’t think we often give enough credit to how merciful the plan of salvation is—the default is towards mercy for all those who have not received sufficient instruction. It is the opposite of the concept that infants are damned without baptism.

  • We shall have a perfect knowledge

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    Now we see through a glass darkly but I’m the resurrection we will see clearly what joy and righteousness are and what actually brings guilt. I doubt it will be completely surprising but at the same time I’m confident that we will discover we were wrong about some of what we thought we knew.

  • Which way do you face?

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    The Lord is inviting His covenant people to be more concerned with His views and his power and less concerned with the views of men and their power. If they look to him and trust in him, the derision and even threats of men will be of no consequence.

  • Why look to Abraham?

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    The Lord commends His people to look to Abraham saying that He covenanted with Abraham individually. I think the reason is that the people were supposed to look to Abraham as an example to help guide them to make covenants with God.